Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
Date
2006-02Metadata
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Is entrepreneurship an innate ability or an acquired skill? Can entrepreneurial acumen
be achieved and enhanced through education and training, or are certain people “born” to be entrepreneurs
or to act entrepreneurially? Economists and management theorists give widely divergent
answers to these questions. This paper reviews the major approaches to teaching entrepreneurship,
primarily at the undergraduate level, and relates them to economic theories of entrepreneurship.
Surprisingly, we find little connection between the leading approaches to entrepreneurship
education and economists' understanding of the entrepreneurial function. We assess
likely explanations for the lack of contact between these two groups of scholars and suggest possible
improvements.